Hochofen — meaning in English

English meaning

• furnace noun A heating device used to melt metal, fire ceramics, or heat a building.
• hearth noun The floor or area around a fireplace, often used to represent home and family life.

Senses

Hochofen is used for these senses in English:

• blast furnace (metallurgy) As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.
• hearth The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.

furnace — full definition

1. noun A heating device used to melt metal, fire ceramics, or heat a building.
2. noun Any place or situation that is extremely hot.

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